News archive

Browse the full collection of SLAC press releases and news features and stay up to date on the latest scientific advancements at the laboratory.

Taking pictures of tiny, flash-frozen things with electrons is revolutionizing biology and technology. SLAC and Stanford host one of the world’s leading facilities for doing cryo-EM research, improving the technology and making it available to researchers across the country.

cryo-EM image of Caulobacter bacterium

It will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

LSST camera focal plane

After decades of experience in the DOE lab system and as director of a leading synchrotron light source, he’s back to where he earned his PhD – with a much bigger mission.

Stephen Streiffer

By revealing the chemistry of plant secretions, or exudates, these studies build a basis for better understanding and conserving art and tools made with plant materials.

Plant secretion from what is called "grass tree."

Scientists discover superconductivity and charge density waves are intrinsically interconnected at the nanoscopic level, a new understanding that could help lead to the next generation of electronics and computers.

A beam of light lands on a series of squiggly lines. Where the beam lands, the lines are straight.

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

LCLS-II cooldown

Researchers discover that a spot of molecular glue and a timely twist help a bacterial enzyme convert carbon dioxide into carbon compounds 20 times faster than plant enzymes do during photosynthesis. The results stand to accelerate progress toward converting carbon...

An illustration shows the pocket in an enzyme called ECR where the carbon fixing reaction takes place.

How quickly a battery electrode decays depends on properties of individual particles in the battery – at first. Later on, the network of particles matters more.

A group of particles, some highlighted in reds and oranges to show which have begun to break apart.
News Feature · VIA Stanford Report

Stephen Streiffer named Stanford vice president for SLAC

Stephen Streiffer, deputy laboratory director for science and technology at Argonne National Laboratory, has been named as Stanford University’s new vice president for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Stephen Streiffer

A physical chemist and a diverse group of his students are working on applications with nanoscopic diamonds.

Three side-by-side portraits.